Jim Ankan with students
Jim Ankan Deka, an Assamese musician and music composer from Shillong, has been involved with music for almost 20 yrs now. Jim has been composing Music for Kannada and Assamese Films, different Music Albums, Jingles, Video Games, Documentaries and serials in different languages including Assamese, Hindi, English, Kannada, Nagamese, Mizo and Goalporia. He has been involved with Bands like Fossils, Voodoo Child, Prahar, Four Strokes etc.
In the year 2008, Jim Ankan becomes the first Assamese to single-handedly open a music institution 'Eastern Fare Music Foundation' and a recording studio 'Eastern Fare Studio' in Bangalore. Currently this institute guides nearly 500 hundred students, with a total staff of over 20 Teachers in various Musical genres and instruments. Eastern Fare Studio helps new bands by recording their demos. So far Bands like 'Work in Progress', 'Antariksh' and 'Nevermind' have worked in the Eastern Fare Studio under the guidance of Jim.
Jim Ankan now has formed a fusion band called 'Veenar' with a renowned Kannada musician Suchethan Rangaswami which would be playing pure Indian and Western Classical music. They have already started working for their debut album 'Veenar'.
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